TO V. A. KARPINSKY

Written:Written on December 20, 1916Published:First published in 1929 inLenin Miscellany XI.

      Sent from Zurich to Geneva.

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DearComrades,

Ihave to give a lecture here on the Ninth of January,
1905, but I have no
material.[1]Please help me to find:

1)Myslfor 1910 (?)–1911V. Ilyin’s articles on strikes in
Russia.[2]

2)DiskussionnyListokof the C.O. of the R.S.D.L.P.
for 1910–1911 (?), my article on revolution and
counterrevolution in Russia, with a summary of strike
statistics.[3]

3)Trotzky:Russland in der Revolution.

4)Gorn,Mech, Cherevanin and others,collections (legal) for 1906–07 (?). The social movement
in Russia, or something like that. One issue aboutthe
peasantry.[4]

(Agrarianquestion)

5)Maslov,Vol. II. The peasant movement in
1905–06.[5]

6)TheSocial Movement in Russia. The five-volume
collection of Potresov and Co.

7)Moscowin
1905[6]and other 1905–06 pamphlets.Anything you have.Please send what you have, or mark off on this note what
there is and what can be sent over.

Regards,Yours,Lenin

P.S.I sent Guilbeaux my theses on work among the
Left in the Swiss Social-Democratic Party, and asked him
to send them on to
you.[7]Pass them on also to Noah and
Stepko.

[1]Leninread his lecture on the 1905 revolution in German at a
meeting arranged by working-class youth at the Zurich People’s House
on January 22 (9), 1917. For the text of the lecture, see present
edition, Vol. 23, pp. 236–53.

[2]Lenin’sarticle “Strike Statistics in Russia” appeared in the
magazineMysl(Thought) No. 1, December 1910, and No. 2,
January 1911 (see present edition, Vol. 16, pp. 393–421).

[3]DiskussionnyListok(The Discussion Bulletin) No. 3, April 29
(May 12), 1911, carried Lenin’s article “The Historical Meaning
of the Inner-Party Struggle in Russia”, whose second section
contains a summing up of the statistics of the strikes in Russia
referred to by Lenin (see present edition, Vol. 16, pp. 374–92).

[4]Acollection of articles by Vl. Gorn, V. Mech and Cherevanin,The Struggle of Social Forces in the Russian Revolution, Moscow.
Issue Three,The Peasantry and the Revolution.

[5]PyotrMaslov’s book,The Agrarian Question in Russia, Vol. II,The Crisis of the Peasant Economy and the Peasant Movement,
St. Petersburg, Obshchestvennaya Polza Publishers, 1908.

[6]ThebookMoscow in December 1905, published in Moscow in
1906. For Lenin’s review of it, see present edition, Vol. 11,
pp. 171–78.

[7]Areference to the theses “Tasks of the Left Zimmerwaldists in
the Swiss Social-Democratic Party”, written in late October or
early November 1916, and published as a leaflet in French in
1918 (see present edition, Vol. 23, pp. 137–48).